“In every pang that rends the heart The Man of Sorrows had a part”
“The blood of Jesus Christ can cover a multitude of sins, it seems to me.”
“He comes into the world God knows how, walks on the water, gets out of his grave and goes up off the Hill of Howth. What drivel is this?”
“Never has any one been less a priest than Jesus, never a greater enemy of forms, which stifle religion under the pretext of protecting it. By this we are all his disciples and his successors; by this he has laid the eternal foundation-stone of true religion; and if religion is essential to humanity, he has by this deserved the Divine rank the world has accorded him.”
“Let us pardon him his hope of a vain apocalypse, and of a second coming in great triumph upon the clouds of heaven. Perhaps these were the errors of others rather than his own; and if it be true that he himself shared the general illusion, what matters it, since his dream rendered him strong against death, and sustained him in a struggle to which he might otherwise have been unequal?”
“Thou has conquered, O pale Galilean.”
“Only Christ could have conceived Christ.”
“The Lord has turned all our sunsets into sunrise.”
“Jesus Christ is God's everything for man's total need.”
“Jesus whom I know as my Redeemer cannot be less than God.”
“Jesus Christ turns life right-side-up, and heaven outside-in.”
“You should point to the whole man Jesus and say, ''That is God.''”
“All that I am I owe to Jesus Christ, revealed to me in His divine Book.”
“Jesus was the first socialist, the first to seek a better life for mankind.”
“Jesus Christ, the condescension of divinity, and the exaltation of humanity.”
“Every time that I think of the crucifixion of Christ, I commit the sin of envy.”
“By a Carpenter mankind was made, and only by that Carpenter can mankind be remade.”
“A heroic figure... not wholly to blame for the religion that's been foisted on him.”
“Above all the grace and the gifts that Christ gives to his beloved is that of overcoming self.”
“I wouldn't put it past God to arrange a virgin birth if He wanted, but I very much doubt if He would.”
“Jesus says, ''I love you just the way you are. And I love you too much to let you stay the way you are.''”
“We're more popular than Jesus Christ now. I don't know which will go first; rock and roll or Christianity.”
“Jesus was all right, but his disciples were thick and ordinary. It's them twisting it that ruins it for me.”
“Jesus was a brilliant Jewish stand-up comedian, a phenomenal improviser. His parables are great one-liners.”
“Jesus is the God whom we can approach without pride and before whom we can humble ourselves without despair.”
“The name of Jesus is as ointment poured forth; It nourishes, and illumines, and stills the anguish of the soul.”
“Christianity takes for granted the absence of any self-help and offers a power which is nothing less than the power of God.”
“The Christian is not one who has gone all the way with Christ. None of us has. The Christian is one who has found the right road.”
“The word ''Christianity'' is already a misunderstanding -- in reality there has been only one Christian, and he died on the Cross.”
“I love to hear my Lord spoken of, and wherever I have seen the print of His shoe in the earth, there have I coveted to put mine also.”